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Saturday, May 18, 2024

THE PIPER: Revisionist history

There was high drama last Thursday night when President David Granger addressed the National Assembly - constituting it as the 'Parliament' - and the...

EYEWITNESS: Circling the wagons…

…for “our” people The WPA weighed in on Pressie’s unilateral appointment of Justice James Patterson as GECOM’s chairman. Your Eyewitness hoped, in the interest of...

EYEWITNESS: Questions…

…of Prezzie Your Eyewitness was intrigued to discover Prezzie had evidently taken that “midnight plane to Georgia” to deliver an address to the PNC group...

EYEWITNESS: Mouth (finally) open…

…on land giveaway On Sept 19th, Prezzie spoke to the regional press corps on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, and made an intervention...

EYEWITNESS: Baring it all?…

…not on oil! A funny thing happened to the APNU/AFC coalition on the way to power: they’ve contracted selective amnesia. When they were in the...

EYEWITNESS: Revealing…

…Govt’s mindset on sugar workers Over the last year, the inhuman treatment meted out by the Government to sugar workers has revealed a most despicable...

THE PIPER: Nigeria’s mirror image?

Over the years, even staid World Bank economists have remarked on the economic, social and political parallels between Guyana and Sub-Saharan Africa in the...

THE PIPER: Constitutional reform

It was with a great deal of surprise the Guyanese public learnt through the press that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo had requested assistance from...

EYEWITNESS: What’s going down…

…with the Lombard squatters? Your Eyewitness is quite puzzled with what’s going down with the Lombard Street squatters. Looks like they’re being kicked (as the...

EYEWITNESS: Call in the police…

…at GECOM GECOM’s been in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. To be fair, the contretemps over appointing its chair isn’t its fault....

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